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> Since then, the news site has published 73 AI-generated articles, but the outlet says on its website that a team of editors is involved in the content “from
by karaterobot 4y ago
> Since then, the news site has published 73 AI-generated articles, but the outlet says on its website that a team of editors is involved in the content “from ideation to publication. Ensuring that the information we publish and the recommendations we make are accurate, credible, and helpful to you is a defining responsibility for what we do.”
This is the thing that actually scares me, because I don't believe them when they say they have editors scrutinizing everything the AI writes. They may give it a glance, but I would bet any amount of money that they don't rigorously check everything. And as time goes on, they're going to spend fewer and fewer resources on editorial, I guarantee it. My basis for saying this is that editorial has already been deeply cut — forget rewrites, forget fact checking, it feels like half these articles have outright typos that never get caught. I'm not sure anyone but the author closely reads an article before it goes into publication, and if the author is an AI...
They aren't going to staff up on editorial if AI can generate content, they will just spend $0 on writers, and as little as they can get away with on editors, approaching $0.